Diversity Week 2 DQR
Jaylin001
DiscussionQuestionResponse.docxDiscussion Question Response
Having developed a definition of diversity in the last module, this week we’re turning to how diversity applies to you personally. This could be related to your personal experiences or things you’ve observed of those around you. Because Milestone One is also due this week, we’ll start to discuss the issues and events that interest you. Based on the module resources and your own research, write an initial post that addresses the following:
· Describe an event related to diversity that either you or someone around you has experienced. What did you take away, and how did it enhance your understanding of diversity?
· Share a current issue related to diversity that you have found interesting or that has personally impacted you. Post an article from a news source. How does diversity help you better understand this issue?
Post at least two responses to your fellow students. In your responses to your peers, take a look through the lens of intersectionality and consider both sides of your classmates’ issues. Compare and contrast your answers. What do you like about your peers’ explanations, and what would you add?
Make sure you support your response with the readings from this module, and any additional resources if needed.
JoAnna Hansen - It is crazy that with being in this class my mind is more open and aware of these types of situations. My boyfriend is Asian, Vietnamese to be exact (he was adopted at the age of 2) and when it comes to living in a small town there are not many people of different ethnicities. With him I have experienced relatively recent people treating him differently just because of the way he looks. Even as to making comments about the color of his skin and one person even told him to go back to his “homeland”. He is the type of person to just brush it off (which he did) because he has the mindset of this being his home and not Vietnam. The thing that I took away from it most off is that I do not ever want to be someone who judges or treats someone differently just because of the way they look. This is not just when it comes to race and ethnicity but also to people who have disabilities that cause them to look different than what society has deemed “normal”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56218684 This news article talks about the rise in Asian American crimes that rose during the pandemic. Diversity can help us better understand this issue by allowing us not to put blame on just one specific group of people. With there being so much hate in this world having diversity can help us live healthy physical, financial, professional and emotional lives (Segal, 2019).
Source:
Segal, E. (2019). Why we need diversity. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/201907/why-we-need-diversity.
Response -
Kayla Gleason - I can not exactly think of an event pertaining to myself or someone I know, but I will say that diversity is evolving all around us. With the pandemic, political ideology changes and other things, diversity is all around us. First in the workforce, we are seeing more remote and multigenerational jobs, inclusion in workforce and schools etc. Inclusion of all races, with eliminating unconscious bias is helpful to get to a better stance with diversity overall.
In this article I have linked below, it touches upon just how diversity is evolving with medical student admission. "As the U.S. population becomes more racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse, having a health care workforce that can relate to individuals of different backgrounds, skin colors and ethnicities can improve quality of care." (Lotfi, A. 2020). In this article it is stated that African American patients receive higher quality of care when seen by a black physician. "Intersectionality has come to serve as a key point of connection across disciplines." (Butler, J.E. 2017). "Black feminist scholars invented the notion of intersectionality in the late 1980s, it then went on to become the dominant way of conceptualizing diversity in and beyond the academy." (Vogel, L. 2018).
BUTLER, J. E. (2017). Intersectionality and Liberal Education. Liberal Education, 103(3/4), 38–45.
Vogel, L. (2018). Beyond Intersectionality. Science & Society, 82(2), 275–287.
Response -
Discus
sion Question Response
Having developed a definition of diversity in the last module, this week we’re turning to how diversity
appl
ies to you personally. This could be related to your personal experiences or things you’ve observed
of those around you. Because Milestone One is also due this week, we’ll start to discuss the issues and
events that interest you. Based on the module resour
ces and your own research, write an initial post
that addresses the following:
·
Describe an event related to diversity that either you or someone around you has experienced.
What did you take away, and how did it enhance your understanding of diversity?
·
Sha
re a current issue related to diversity that you have found interesting or that has personally
impacted you. Post an article from a news source. How does diversity help you better
understand this issue?
Post at least two responses to your fellow students.
In your responses to your peers, take a look through
the lens of intersectionality and consider both sides of your classmates’ issues. Compare and contrast
your answers. What do you like about your peers’ explanations, and what would you add?
Make sure you
support your response with the readings from this module, and any additional resources
if needed.
JoAnna Hansen
-
It is c
razy that with being in this class my mind is more open and aware of these types
of situations. My boyfriend is Asian, Vietnamese to be exact (he was adopted at the age of 2) and when
it comes to living in a small town there are not many people of differen
t ethnicities. With him I have
experienced relatively recent people treating him differently just because of the way he looks. Even as
to making comments about the color of his skin and one person even told him to go back to his
“homeland”. He is the type
of person to just brush it off (which he did) because he has the mindset of
this being his home and not Vietnam. The thing that I took away from it most off is that I do not ever
want to be someone who judges or treats someone differently just because of t
he way they look. This is
not just when it comes to race and ethnicity but also to people who have disabilities that cause them to
look different than what society has deemed “normal”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world
-
us
-
canada
-
56218684 This news article t
alks about the rise in Asian
American crimes that rose during the pandemic. Diversity can help us better understand this issue by
allowing us not to put blame on just one specific group of people. With there being so much hate in this
world having diversit
y can help us live healthy physical, financial, professional and emotional lives
(Segal, 2019).
Source:
Segal, E. (2019). Why we need diversity. Psychology Today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social
-
empathy/201907/why
-
we
-
need
-
diversity
.
Res
ponse
-
Discussion Question Response
Having developed a definition of diversity in the last module, this week we’re turning to how diversity
applies to you personally. This could be related to your personal experiences or things you’ve observed
of those around you. Because Milestone One is also due this week, we’ll start to discuss the issues and
events that interest you. Based on the module resources and your own research, write an initial post
that addresses the following:
Describe an event related to diversity that either you or someone around you has experienced.
What did you take away, and how did it enhance your understanding of diversity?
Share a current issue related to diversity that you have found interesting or that has personally
impacted you. Post an article from a news source. How does diversity help you better
understand this issue?
Post at least two responses to your fellow students. In your responses to your peers, take a look through
the lens of intersectionality and consider both sides of your classmates’ issues. Compare and contrast
your answers. What do you like about your peers’ explanations, and what would you add?
Make sure you support your response with the readings from this module, and any additional resources
if needed.
JoAnna Hansen - It is crazy that with being in this class my mind is more open and aware of these types
of situations. My boyfriend is Asian, Vietnamese to be exact (he was adopted at the age of 2) and when
it comes to living in a small town there are not many people of different ethnicities. With him I have
experienced relatively recent people treating him differently just because of the way he looks. Even as
to making comments about the color of his skin and one person even told him to go back to his
“homeland”. He is the type of person to just brush it off (which he did) because he has the mindset of
this being his home and not Vietnam. The thing that I took away from it most off is that I do not ever
want to be someone who judges or treats someone differently just because of the way they look. This is
not just when it comes to race and ethnicity but also to people who have disabilities that cause them to
look different than what society has deemed “normal”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56218684 This news article talks about the rise in Asian
American crimes that rose during the pandemic. Diversity can help us better understand this issue by
allowing us not to put blame on just one specific group of people. With there being so much hate in this
world having diversity can help us live healthy physical, financial, professional and emotional lives
(Segal, 2019).
Source:
Segal, E. (2019). Why we need diversity. Psychology Today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-empathy/201907/why-we-need-diversity.
Response -
